Socialist Party of Uruguay

The Socialist Party of Uruguay (PSU) is a socialist political party in Uruguay which was founded in 1910 by Emilio Frugoni. During the 1920s, the Communist Party of Uruguay split from the PSU, weakening the main party; during the 1950s, the party began to distance itself from Frugoni's positions and instead shifted towards social democracy. During the late 1960s, the right-wing Uruguayan government banned the Socialist Party and other leftist parties, and it took part in the founding of the Broad Front of Uruguay in 1971. The party regained its legality in 1984, and it reached the presidency in both 2004 and 2014.